The National tribune., 1887-05-12
LOYAL WOMBNSWORK
The Household, Conversation Club.
Puzzles. etc.
The Happy Household.
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Hate and bonnets trimmed high.
Newest ribbons have feather edges
BLACK and fancy stTaws prevail.
Velvet iacings for hats aud bonnets.
TenB-cOttas IA all shades IN high faNor.
Fancy half-yas In oil shades
Little girls dresses worn very long
Dark aud black hosiery for great ana small
Lace bonnets Tor full dress or elderly ladies.
Full sleeves. finished with deep cults ior wash
Drnpery lower than formerly and now flowing
Velvet cuils aud collars for Saline dresses.
Sailor styles desirable for boys and girls.
Young misses wear very short Jackets.
Yellow is frequently combined with green; old
Green i HE rare I'm every tint aud shade.
Pink roses the favorite with green trimmings
Children's hate have very wide front brlms' mar
Loose fronts, gathered at the waist. over tight
Innings Tor summer dresses.
GRAHAM GEMS A NO.
Harry HOUSEHOLD: ! send my recipe for Ora
ham gems 10 Mrs. McCaustland, and think IL bet
Ter Than the one published last week. make them
that way sometimes. but when do my husband
says, Don't do II again; and Inc was I'VE years IN
the army, and ought 10 know what good living 10
One cup sweet milk, one egg, tablespoonful sugar,
tablespoonful melted butter, pinch OF salt, heapng
teaspooniul baking powder, one cup Sranam HouI'
and il not quite s,iff enough add little wheat -four
Mrs. VIM. Amidon, Granville, N. y.
AUNT LIBBIEs CAKE.
HAIRY HOUSEHOLD: ] viii send recipe for a
cheap cake tiiSi n very easy 10 make. cali IL
Aunt Idbbics cake: one egg, cup sugar, two
thirds cup sweet milk two lablespoontuis butter.
one and a half cups flour, two teaspoonius baking
powder; flavor with lemon. Beat well
have very pretty apron pattern for a little
Rrl, new style, that will send 10 any one sending
me six cents in stamps FOR postage aud paper. A
soldiers wle.-Mrs L. ;. Partridge CanHdice, On
tario Co., N. y.
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GERMAN ORIGIN OF QUEEN VICTORIA.
EDITOR C. c.: VIII yos please let me know.
Through the G. g. columns. whether Queen AictO-
ria ls Scotch, Welsh, German. j would like 10
settle dispute.-Gilbert Logan, Eiliston, Mont.
Queen Victoria s The daughter Of Edward. Duke
OF Kent, who was the fourth son Of George III and
Princess Victoria Mary Louisa OF saKe-Coburg-
saalfeld, widow of the hereditary Prince OF Lem
ingen. She is the sixth Sovereign Of the House Of
Hanover, originally German her fathers side,
and German GA her mothers side-EDTToR-
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HONOR R0LL-BEsT LETTERS
First Honor-zorHida 5. Henderson, Box %, Big
Second HOnOr-Bucleye Boy, West Lafayette, o.
soLyERs AND sEARcHERs
Mary ID. Petty, North Dorset. VT. q; Annie L.
Marsh, Saugus, Mass, g; J. A Sanders. Bath Me-,
a. ~ liz n
Windsor, H., o. Stanton jackson. Spring Church,
Pa, 81 III. M. Mccall, Cole Camp, Mo. z; Mrs
Mary p. Clark, Medford, Pa, 4; Grace Nicholson
holyoke, Mass 2; Charles u. Waters Mesierville
Neb, a. A. NJ. Grouse Harrisburg, Pa; jesse d.
harey, henton. O.. 9; James l.. Alger. swamp
scott, Mass, Z; T.. 4. Curry, Hope. Oak 8; Neltie
Ioothaker, Berwick. Me. 4; Jennie I.ytle Mar
tns Ferry, o., 3; M NJ. Berl1len, Strasburg No.
= klna A. Kelly, Southport, Conn.,. 2; ID. Il. Wit
ter Council Bluffs, Iowa 2: Sarah A. McAiahon
Spring Blum, Mis-, q; J. A. Sanders, Bath Me- i;
Prank Toies. Bolivia, H.. 3; Martha NJ. Hutson
Scotland, Ind q Bernice Salisbury, Remsou' . Cor
mere, o. 4; Lena II. Lubee, South HaFpsweI Me-
l.. Z. Mann, hOc0tt, Me-, 3; Mary 4. King Al
legany, n. ", 4; :. q. Bruce. Mrightstown MINI,
O Zoraida = Henderson, Big Springs, Neb, z; @.
w. Kelly DIST Iowa Cay.). CotLage Grove Ore, i;
A. keim, Sabeiila, Kan, 81 q. ii. r., Belcherstown
Mass. a. Mary Pullman. Wykof Mimi. ?: DIAL,
las Soatterday, Bridgeport, o. 1; w. O. Wiley
Oakland. Crossroads, Pa, a; Charley Walton
Laston, Wis, 3; Clarence j.. Fetzer, Madisonburg,
o., D. Arolne Larson. LOTelnnd. Iowa. 4: Harry
fox, Frankfort Springs Pa, g; c. w. Proctor
Kimball. Mimi, 3; Ruth Jackson, Dallas Pa, i;
a. ". hehilbbl, ShumWays III, i.
OUR ROLL-CALL-GREETING.
Edward NHylOr Wittrup Kan; James C. HouQh
Amos, w. Va; A. o. Hemphill. Shumway. IN;
Florence Smock Winfield, Kan; &C. H. Price
PipestOne, Mum. Jennie Lyle. Martins Ferry, o.;
Harry M. Gray, Georgesville, o.; l.. IA Sparks
Triumph, o.; Hattie NJ. Kinne, Baldwin, Mich;
Nellie q, Wolf. Grand Tower H.; Daisy Pressler
g2 daughtler Co n. $50 Ohio veteran wounded
In the breast aud as the bullet which was extracted
mother died Ina November 1885: Mamie T. Brock.
way llj, Argenia, H., daughter Co. 4, 7th IN.
al sunday school Christmas celebration father
dled IA le5Oi Amber Fader l9l, Wentworth, Dal.,
oangher sth III eavaryman, was In Libby Prison.
and belongs 10 j. A. Kellogg Post.
QUESTIONS FOR WISE ONES
why were the Counties OF overton and Warren
IN Tennessee, surveyed and plated in a circular
form?
What If the highest altitude ever reached by a
balloon. and whnt temperature was recorded IN
A. Witter, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
LUCK
FRH1sDs THE c. c.: 4 aln a son of 5Ist Ohio
veteran, and knock for adnlitance 10 the Club.
Luck What ir a.? Can you define itP
sort Of hap-hazard arrangement; an effect
without cause trick u nature; a twin brother TO
fortune IA a certain sense a game Of chance in
which you tell what effect certain causes
Will produce an indeiBable nOndescript; "A
lottery, where the chances against you
Lave we right 10 expect something for nothing ?
Did waiting for luck make millionaires of A II
Stewart. JAY Gould, John Jacob Astor and the
loiilchilds3 Wac Il luck that made Kepoleon
Wellington, Washington and Grant Generals \
Did luck convert Lincoln. Douglas. Clay Webster
6nd jefferson into advocates aud statesmen and
Milton, Byron, Burns and Shakespeare into poets
There AZ a large class OF people wboseem endowed
Al we might use such term in this connection with
lazy, listless gO-casy sort Of disposton thai over
powers their small stock of sumbering ambition
completely. They would like 10 do some little
something, and be somebody If they could without
the exercise Of any particular effort
They don see that the energetic man fares much
better than lac who takes the world easy so they
are quietly aud patiently waiting for something 20
occur OF itheii ln their favor like MicaWber watt
ing for something 10 turn up" Mindialls are
glorious ihlngs; they come easy; they d like 10
catch ole. They wouldn't work hard even ~ ol,
tain good thing and do well.
They are looking Tor a good easy lob n nios
soft place" They can find soft place every
time right under their hate How they are ever
going 10 get through lie aud accomplish anything
they arc unable 10 say but have a vague SORT of an
idea that fortune will favor them la some wav
though they can't for the life Of them Tell why OF
how.
They believe greatly In what Is known In com.
mon paTAncc luck
lie "A convenient belief for q lazy man lut lei
him follow u up aud he will scratch q Door fnan'e
nose as long as lac lives" Buckeye Boy" West
Lafayette, o.
STORY OF CLEVER DOG.
FRIENis or THE &C: DIR. 4. NJ. Fuller, Of Bath
Me, has cute dog. The Doctor was going 10 4 cW.
tstOn the other day and the dog made np hs mind
10 20 with him, 30 he followed his master down IA
The depot, aud as u nearly time for the cars "a
start, the Doctor tried TO drive tlle dog home bul
the animal didn't seem inclined 10 20 Al last tl,e
Doctor took pair Of gloves out of his pocket TIED
them together with a string and gave them 10 hin
and told him To take them home. lie started OF
with the gleves, but thought IL he went home witt
them hc would be too late for the train 40 tftoJ